Last week, another pal of mine is having a birthday. E is a dog lover, so I wanted to make something canine-ish ;)
I saw the idea for this somewhere, but I can't remember. All I know is when I'm brainstorming what to make for E, this idea came up. And I remember it's easy to decorate. Something foolproof. So I did yellow cake cupcakes, covered with cream cheese frosting, and add milk chocolate sprinkles + Milo Puff and Coco Crunch cereals. Little did I know that once it's done, no one recognize that it was a puppy until I told them so =='....
My mom thought it's bears. (Ok, I can sorta see that). My Grandma asked why I'm making rats (*ouch). My boyfriend said cute sleeping Pandas (What!?). Birthday girl E squealed and said it was cute, but sorta have no clue what it was >_<... until I told her it's supposed to be dogs (then she squealed some more... heh heh heh.... esp after she saw the cupcake liners are Scooby Doo - another dog ;)
Ok what does it look like to you? :/ *I guess I need to practice my decorating skills....* :P
On a side note: 2 outs for cake recipes. *SIGH*. The soft cake recipe I usually use in the US ended up like this. It is more difficult to make so I decided I wanted to do a really simple cake recipe this time (Not as tasty) but in theory it's a little more foolproof so it won't shrunk. Well the upside is the cake did not shrunk. BUT it didn't rise either. >_<..... GRRRR.... So the first batch ended up really hard and dry T_T... the second batch is better but still sort of flat - and ended up being chewy and dense. Thank goodness for the cream cheese frosting that sorta balance the cake out. At least I got that right and it help improves the taste of the cake :P My friends swallowed their cupcake portion and seemed to enjoy it. (They seem to really like the frosting... mwahaha) And they said it's adorable - so I feel happy ;)
Now for the leftovers: Since the house is still being renovated, we have some workers daily working on the house. So after icing the rest of the cupcakes (and I made mini cupcakes with the leftover batter too), my Mom used the leftover cereals and add sprinkles on top of the cupcakes and passed them out to the workers. Here's pictures of the leftovers:
From what I heard, they gobbled those up pretty quickly :P This is good, I can experiment and have lots of people as my taster guinea pigs :P Hihihi....
Thoughts: I really have to find a working recipe here *sigh*... Next, I plan to try making the wiid recipe in my kitchen (which ALWAYS work without any glitch back in the US). Crossing my fingers for that to work.... *wish wish wish wishhhhh*
